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Sounds Too Many is a lecture-performance by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza that places the ocean at center stage at a time when sound pollution is exploding by using sophisticated audio engineering and visualisations to put things into perspective.

This primarily acoustic presentation creates an immersive experience that calls into question the unlimited and unregulated sonic pollution that the Anthropocene era has imposed on our oceans and the disruption that this causes to all natural phenomena. It is a call for a quieter ocean.In collaboration with the Acoustic Ecology Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the award-winning NRDC documentary Sonic Sea, TBA21–Academy expeditions, the sound artist Jana Winderen, and other contributors, never-before-heard sounds have been spatialised by sound designers from Ears Up Sound Design Studio in Burbank, California, in partnership with Meyer Sound Laboratories, to create Sounds too Many, a soundscape that transports listeners to a world that is terrifyingly brutal.Visualisations by Territorial Agency are tightly synchronised with the soundscapes to provide visceral insights into the scale and mechanics of the ecological threat that is sound pollution in the ocean.